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Truman, Carter and Obama
There are many who are getting a sense of deja vu about the Obama Presidency. Like President Jimmy Carter, President Obama is dealing with quagmires that have built up over many years that will make the American people worse off for some time to come. The weight of those challenges, and the unwillingness of Congress to impose the measures needed to turn things around, is making him seem hapless and impotent. Moreover President Obama underestimated just how rotten our economy has become at its core, and what a hard slog it will be to find a bottom. The measures he managed to get passed were conventional measures for a conventional recession, not an economic structure in collapse at the end of a 30-year debt binge. That 30 year era followed another era that collapsed under President Carter.
But Jimmy Carter had a Democratic congress, whereas Barack Obama is facing a Republican congress. That makes his situation more like that of President Harry Truman, whose term I didn't live through personally but read about in the award winning book. Truman was unpopular due to the problems in the country, including a far more brutal war than the one we are in, and yet could run against a "do nothing Congress." At the time, as well, part of the Republican Party had fallen into McCarthyism. You can't say politics today are more divisive than that. To put on a respectable face the Republicans nominated a respected and reasonable figure, Thomas E. Dewey, the Mitt Romney of his day, but Truman won anyway.
I said back in 2004 that the Democrats should consider themselves lucky Kerry lost that election, given what was coming in the economy. Well the debt binge went on a lot longer than I thought it would, and almost lasted through the second Bush term, but in the end I was right. Similarly, the Republicans may come to regret taking the House in 2010. I've noticed that holding office and being in power now has become a bad deal. I'm pessimistic enough to think that the window to implement the changes to ameliorate the downturn closed a few years ago. Now winning high office means presiding over the downturn. Why would anyone want that?
Truman staged his big comeback win in 1948. That was well before the start of the Korean War. Truman was doing his bit though, with things like the Berlin Airlift and shifting to a policy of active containment of the influence of the Soviet Union, and by providing aid against Communist insurgencies in places like Turkey and Greece under the "Truman Doctrine". Internal subversion was not systemmatically associated with the Truman Administration until after Truman's 1948 re-election. Wisconsin's junior Senator Joseph McCarthy would not launch his Jeremiad against Communist infiltration of the U.S. government until February 9, 1950. [Perhaps you've mixed up McCarthy with Congressman Nixon and the 1947 HUAC hearings concerning communist subversion and influence in the film industry, along with the famed "Hollywood Ten" who claimed constitutional protection against testifying. Those hearings ultimately helped launch two Republican presidents, Nixon and Reagan.] I think the lesson for NYC 000-105 dumps|union leaders is that unless total 000-979 dumps|funding for their agency(ies), including payments to the retired, is down from what 220-701 dumps|it was before the recession hit, they'd be better off lying and saying 156-215.71 dumps|everything is great than telling the truth and telling people they are screwed 642-647 dumps|(even if they don't do it with a smile and end1D0-635 dumps| with "we scored and are off to Florida screw you.") Particularly the UFT, whose then-leader described the 25/55 000-978 dumps|pension enhancement as a "win for children."
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taking the House in 2010. They have been thoroughly exposed for what they are: stooges for the Koch brothers and Grover Norquist, who no one has voted for.
Every Republican member of the House has signed Norquist's pledge.
What? Pledging allegiance to the U.S. Constitution is unsuitable?